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Topic: The Future of Star Wars Collecting? (Read 80892 times)

That's really how I feel. What do I write about? And I find the stuff. Quite a bit of it actually. I was very excited about the 3D line and the victory lap for TPM, and I really enjoy the figures, for the most part. And then something has just gone out of it. I got the Evazan case with Wedge today. A carded Wedge has been at the top of my list since 1995. I looked at him and put him down.

Not sure if this plays into the future of collecting or not, but just something I've noticed. I've been ordering SW stuff (and other stuff) from BBTS for the past few years now. Retail has been so off and on, and it is nice knowing you can just get a set shipped to your door. Anyways, I've noticed in the past that usually the new waves (particularly individual figure orders/preorders) are often sold out the second they come in (sometimes even before hand). With these recent figures, BBTS has had the Hoth Luke, Vader, Evazan, etc. in stock for a few days now, and they seem to all still be in stock. Granted, they are at $13.99 a piece, but that didn't always seem to matter in the past either. Just an observation, and maybe it is nothing, but perhaps another example of collector fatigue a bit.

Thanks for pointing this out Brian - I just ordered a set of the Evazan figures (Aayla, Evazan, Kithaba, 501st, Wedge, Anor) to open for $13.99 - I'm sure retail is going to surprise me and make me regret it down the road, but at least now combined with my wave 4.1 case from EE - I've got one of each of these figures open and one MOC and if I can't get more, like an Aayla for her Jedi Starfighter or more 501st troopers, oh well.

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Peter

Letting my collecting OCD get the better of me on a DAILY basis... and loving EVERY minute of it!

Oooh...that hurt. You know, I would love not to have to push my books, but the publishing industry has decided that since social media is free, the authors should do as much as they can. In truth, I find it slightly embarrassing, but if I want to keep making more I have to do it.

And like I said, if I could actually find product, I would talk about that, instead of my work...

Oooh...that hurt. You know, I would love not to have to push my books, but the publishing industry has decided that since social media is free, the authors should do as much as they can. In truth, I find it slightly embarrassing, but if I want to keep making more I have to do it.

And like I said, if I could actually find product, I would talk about that, instead of my work...

The other frustrating aspect of this whole hobby is the catch 22 Hasbro puts us and themselves in. It's been brought up with Hasbro on a few occasions about selling more directly to the die hard collectors, but they take a very reasonable and practical stance - they can't do that without alienating the retailers. Well, the retailers aren't giving us what Hasbro's selling, so we lose. That being out of Hasbro's hands, they ask us to contact the retailer. Well, neither WM or Target have the customer service infrastructure to handle this type of costumer concern, at no level are they equipped to address, pass on, or even understand comments about ordering/distribution issues. Again, we lose.

We can contact the retailers all we want about getting new product in, but it's all about assortment. They don't know case A from case B (we could advise them), but even still new cases have older product in them that aren't selling.